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Early Modern · 1693
An Exhortation and Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes
George Keith · c. 1638–1716
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What it is
An argument that Friends should neither buy nor keep enslaved people, and should set free those they hold after a term of service.
Why it lasted
The first antislavery tract printed in North America, published five years after the Germantown petition went unanswered.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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